Requesting that the bridge being constructed on County Route 6, Dry
Run Road, crossing Back Creek near Hedgesville, Berkeley
County, West Virginia, be named the "John Edgar Saville
Memorial Bridge".

Whereas, John Edgar Saville was born September 13, 1890, and as
a young man taught at Greenwood School, Berkeley Springs, West
Virginia, before enlisting in the United States Army on May 27,
1918; and

Whereas, Following his enlistment during which he attained the
Gold War Star for exemplary service, John Edgar Saville returned to
teach at the Tomahawk School at Hedgesville, West Virginia, and was
principal of the school for seventeen years; and

Whereas, John Edgar Saville married Leva Alva Pitzer, and had
two daughters, Evelyn Marie Saville and Margaret Eloise Saville;
and

Whereas, In 1917, John Edgar Saville purchased a farm
consisting of 250 acres of land surrounding the area on which the
new bridge on County Route 6, Dry Run Road near Hedgesville,
Berkeley County, West Virginia is being constructed; and

Whereas, John Edgar Saville died November 11, 1940, survived by
his widow and daughters age eight and ten years of age; and

Whereas, Part of the family farm containing the original home
place has been retained by the family these many years, and Mr.
Saville's daughter, Margaret Eloise Saville Wilhelm, still lives in
the family home in which she was born eighty-one years ago; and

Whereas, It is fitting to establish this memorial to call
attention to the more than one hundred years of history associated
with John Edgar Saville and his family's work and life on the land;
therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the bridge being constructed on County Route 6, Dry Run
Road, near Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia, be named
the "John Edgar Saville Memorial Bridge"; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of the Division of
Highways is hereby requested to erect signs at both ends of the
bridge containing bold and prominent letters proclaiming the bridge

the "John Edgar Saville Memorial Bridge"; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates
forward a certified copy of this resolution to the Commissioner of
the Division of Highways and to Margaret Eloise Wilhelm, Dry Run
Road, Hedgesville, WV.